Crime in Sussex – here’s what happened in October

The dramatic trial of a man charged with two murders, moped riders attacking a firefighter and a gun scare in a city centre are just some of the crime stories you have been talking about this past month.

Sussex remains one of the safest counties in the country, with lower levels of crime than many other parts of England.

However it is not without crime. Here are some of the incidents our newspapers covered in October.

A former soldier was found guilty of murdering his ex-wife and her mother in an ‘execution-style’ shooting in St Leonards